Daniel Hoffer

I've always been surprised by how much of an effect the "Buy One, Get One Free" slogan has on my psyche. For example, I lived in New York during grad school and whenever it rained, within minutes a small cottage industry of street vendors would pop up like daisies all around the cit

I have a few New Year’s resolutions: 1) Eat less, 2) exercise more, and 3) share some thoughts around the term “granular recovery” when it comes to VMware and VCB backups. Hopes are high and I am confident I will be able to achieve at least one of my three resolutions.   Most folks are alr

But why would you do such a thing?? You'd have to be really frickin' stupid to burn dollar bills to light a fire!!   Yeah, I knew you'd agree with that. Fortunately, NetBackup customers are smarter than the average bear (or, let's say, the average backup administrator).

I was shopping at a shoe store recently for a new pair of dress shoes, and finally found what I was looking for and brought my purchase to a counter. "Don't you know about our 2-for-1 deal?" the woman at the counter asked me. "With this purchase, you could buy a second pair of

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks travelling through Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina) and the one commonality between my experiences in each of these three countries is that I don’t speak the local language in any of them. In high school, I studied French, not Spanish, and Portugues